Tallahatchie Bridge Song

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Tallahatchie bridge song. Ode to billie joe tallahatchie bridge hope you are all like it. Though the song was not included on her 2014 album the river the thread rosanne cash and husband producer john leventhal frequently performed the song live on the tour promoting that album as the album cover featured a photo of roseanne taken by leventhal standing atop the tallahatchie bridge looking at the tallahatchie river. Bobbie gentry s biggest hit was ode to billie joe in which the young narrator tells the story against a backdrop of biscuits and small town mississippi gossip of how billie joe mcallister jumped off the tallahatchie bridge. The tallahatchie bridge which spans the tallahatchie river collapsed in 1972 but was later rebuilt.

Today billie joe macallister jumped off the tallahatchie bridge and papa said to mama as he passed around the black eyed peas well billie joe never had a lick of sense. She move from mississippi to california in 1957 when she was 13. She was just making rhymes to make the song. That is just a song she made up.

This line makes no sense within the context of the song and appears to have only been included as a sort of nonsensical piece of musical filler. It became billboard s no. Pass the biscuits please there s five more acres in the lower forty i ve got to plow and mama said it was a shame about billie joe anyhow. It is just a song.

Tallahatchie bridge song lyrics it was the 3rd of june another sleepy dusty delta day lyrics. All of which made the dad rock guys take note when they learned that on this day june 20 in 1972 the famous wooden bridge which crossed the tallahatchie river not far from greenwood. The final line in the song is and that s why billy joe macallister s jumped off the tallahatchie bridge sung in the exact same manner as the bobby gentry song. Sung by bobbie gentry.

Anonymous from us i suspect the song is really about the 14 year old boy emmett till his body was found in the tallahatchie river after he was beaten mutilated and murdered on august 28 1955. This is not my production not my song not my owner ship. While music is given by lil kapow. I am from tallahatchie county.

She is from choctaw county. Choctaw rigde is about 83 miles from the tallahatchie bridge. This song tells the story of the fictional billie joe mcallister who kills himself by jumping off the tallahatchie bridge.